SAN JOSE — A goal by Patrick Marleau with 33.1 seconds remaining forced overtime Thursday night and enabled the Sharks to salvage a point in a 3-2 shootout loss to the Florida Panthers.

But nobody in the San Jose locker room was feeling good about the 59 minutes of hockey that preceded Marleau”s shot.

“The point”s great, but we”re not happy with where our game”s at. That”s probably the biggest thing we”ll take from tonight,” forward Tommy Wingels said. “We”re a better team than we showed.”

That, unfortunately, has been a common theme with the Sharks lately and even their first game at the SAP Center after two weeks on the road didn”t change that.

“Guys, including myself, can bring a lot more and need to bring a lot more if we”re going to have success,” Wingels said. “We”re a team that can score and has scored in the past. We”ve got to start doing that again.”

The loss continued another pattern the Sharks (10-9-3) were hoping to break as the Panthers became the third less-than-stellar Eastern Conference team to sweep the season series from San Jose, which is now a collective 0-5-1 against Florida, the Buffalo Sabres and Columbus Blue Jackets.

This was the first of six consecutive home games for a Sharks team that has been on the road for a record 16 of their first 21 games. But whatever buzz their return might have created was gone just 24 seconds into the first period.

The teams traded power-play goals in the second period, with Logan Couture scoring at 6:19 for the Sharks and Bjugstad getting his second of the night at 17:23.

That was all the scoring until the Sharks pulled Niemi for an extra attacker with 1:45 left in the game, and a minute later Marleau took a pass from Joe Thornton in the corner and beat Luongo on the far side.

“I was just trying to get it on net as quick as possible, but I knew he was going to be on the near post so I was able to find the far side,” said Marleau, who had missed on a penalty shot at 13:07 of the final period that would have tied the game.

A penalty to Marc-Edouard Vlasic with 10.5 seconds left in regulation forced the Sharks to start the overtime short-handed. When that didn”t settle things, it was Bjugstad who scored what turned out to be the shootout winner after both Couture and Panthers forward Jussi Jokinen tallying before that.

The fact San Jose”s goals came from Couture and Marleau drew attention to the fact coach Todd McLellan had split the slumping pair up before the game, moving Marleau to the Thornton line and dropping Joe Pavelski alongside Couture. But because both goals came with the Sharks having a man advantage, Couture wasn”t ready to endorse the move.

McLellan, on the other hand, said he liked what he saw from both.

“When you look at Patty”s game, he was much more aggressive tonight than he has been with his speed. He drew a penalty shot. Had some chances,” McLellan said. “Cooch looked more like Cooch should, with some of the shooting attempts that he normally gets.”

It also was Jason Demers”s 300th NHL contest.

For more on the Sharks, see David Pollak”s Working the Corners blog at . Follow him on Twitter at .

SAN JOSE — A goal by Patrick Marleau with 33.1 seconds remaining forced overtime Thursday night and enabled the Sharks to salvage a point in a 3-2 shootout loss to the Florida Panthers.

But nobody in the San Jose locker room was feeling good about the 59 minutes of hockey that preceded Marleau”s shot.

“The point”s great, but we”re not happy with where our game”s at. That”s probably the biggest thing we”ll take from tonight,” forward Tommy Wingels said. “We”re a better team than we showed.”

That, unfortunately, has been a common theme with the Sharks lately and even their first game at the SAP Center after two weeks on the road didn”t change that.

“Guys, including myself, can bring a lot more and need to bring a lot more if we”re going to have success,” Wingels said. “We”re a team that can score and has scored in the past. We”ve got to start doing that again.”

The loss continued another pattern the Sharks (10-9-3) were hoping to break as the Panthers became the third less-than-stellar Eastern Conference team to sweep the season series from San Jose, which is now a collective 0-5-1 against Florida, the Buffalo Sabres and Columbus Blue Jackets.

This was the first of six consecutive home games for a Sharks team that has been on the road for a record 16 of their first 21 games. But whatever buzz their return might have created was gone just 24 seconds into the first period.

The teams traded power-play goals in the second period, with Logan Couture scoring at 6:19 for the Sharks and Bjugstad getting his second of the night at 17:23.

That was all the scoring until the Sharks pulled Niemi for an extra attacker with 1:45 left in the game, and a minute later Marleau took a pass from Joe Thornton in the corner and beat Luongo on the far side.

“I was just trying to get it on net as quick as possible, but I knew he was going to be on the near post so I was able to find the far side,” said Marleau, who had missed on a penalty shot at 13:07 of the final period that would have tied the game.

A penalty to Marc-Edouard Vlasic with 10.5 seconds left in regulation forced the Sharks to start the overtime short-handed. When that didn”t settle things, it was Bjugstad who scored what turned out to be the shootout winner after both Couture and Panthers forward Jussi Jokinen tallying before that.

The fact San Jose”s goals came from Couture and Marleau drew attention to the fact coach Todd McLellan had split the slumping pair up before the game, moving Marleau to the Thornton line and dropping Joe Pavelski alongside Couture. But because both goals came with the Sharks having a man advantage, Couture wasn”t ready to endorse the move.

McLellan, on the other hand, said he liked what he saw from both.

“When you look at Patty”s game, he was much more aggressive tonight than he has been with his speed. He drew a penalty shot. Had some chances,” McLellan said. “Cooch looked more like Cooch should, with some of the shooting attempts that he normally gets.”

It also was Jason Demers”s 300th NHL contest.

For more on the Sharks, see David Pollak”s Working the Corners blog at . Follow him on Twitter at .

SAN JOSE — A goal by Patrick Marleau with 33.1 seconds remaining forced overtime Thursday night and enabled the Sharks to salvage a point in a 3-2 shootout loss to the Florida Panthers.

But nobody in the San Jose locker room was feeling good about the 59 minutes of hockey that preceded Marleau”s shot.

“The point”s great, but we”re not happy with where our game”s at. That”s probably the biggest thing we”ll take from tonight,” forward Tommy Wingels said. “We”re a better team than we showed.”

That, unfortunately, has been a common theme with the Sharks lately and even their first game at the SAP Center after two weeks on the road didn”t change that.

“Guys, including myself, can bring a lot more and need to bring a lot more if we”re going to have success,” Wingels said. “We”re a team that can score and has scored in the past. We”ve got to start doing that again.”

The loss continued another pattern the Sharks (10-9-3) were hoping to break as the Panthers became the third less-than-stellar Eastern Conference team to sweep the season series from San Jose, which is now a collective 0-5-1 against Florida, the Buffalo Sabres and Columbus Blue Jackets.

This was the first of six consecutive home games for a Sharks team that has been on the road for a record 16 of their first 21 games. But whatever buzz their return might have created was gone just 24 seconds into the first period.

The teams traded power-play goals in the second period, with Logan Couture scoring at 6:19 for the Sharks and Bjugstad getting his second of the night at 17:23.

That was all the scoring until the Sharks pulled Niemi for an extra attacker with 1:45 left in the game, and a minute later Marleau took a pass from Joe Thornton in the corner and beat Luongo on the far side.

“I was just trying to get it on net as quick as possible, but I knew he was going to be on the near post so I was able to find the far side,” said Marleau, who had missed on a penalty shot at 13:07 of the final period that would have tied the game.

A penalty to Marc-Edouard Vlasic with 10.5 seconds left in regulation forced the Sharks to start the overtime short-handed. When that didn”t settle things, it was Bjugstad who scored what turned out to be the shootout winner after both Couture and Panthers forward Jussi Jokinen tallying before that.

The fact San Jose”s goals came from Couture and Marleau drew attention to the fact coach Todd McLellan had split the slumping pair up before the game, moving Marleau to the Thornton line and dropping Joe Pavelski alongside Couture. But because both goals came with the Sharks having a man advantage, Couture wasn”t ready to endorse the move.

McLellan, on the other hand, said he liked what he saw from both.

“When you look at Patty”s game, he was much more aggressive tonight than he has been with his speed. He drew a penalty shot. Had some chances,” McLellan said. “Cooch looked more like Cooch should, with some of the shooting attempts that he normally gets.”

It also was Jason Demers”s 300th NHL contest.

For more on the Sharks, see David Pollak”s Working the Corners blog at . Follow him on Twitter at .